【题目】When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you're at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it.

Cigarette? Cup of coffee? No, it's the third most addictive thing in modern life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their longing to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.

The costs are becoming more and more evident, and I don't mean just the monthly bill. Dr. Chris Knippers, a counselor at the Betty ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality. Sounds extreme, but we' ve all witnessed the evidence: The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, notes that cell - phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e - mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don't have as many friends as our parents." Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends," he says.

If the cell phone has truly had these effects, it's because it has become very widespread. Consider that in 1987, there were only l million cell phones in use. Today, something like 300 million Americans carry them. They far outnumber wired phones in the United States.

【1】From the first two paragraphs, we can know ________.

A. cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes

B. cell phone addiction is good for building personal relationships

C. people are longing to have their own cell phones

D. cell phones are the same as cigarettes

2Cell phone addiction has caused the following effects EXCEPT_________

A. a barrier to personal contact

B. fewer friends

C. an escape from reality

D. a serious illness

3The underlined word "curb" in Paragraph 2 means________.

A. ignore B. control C. develop D. rescue

4The example of a woman talking on the phone in the car supports the idea that__________.

A. women use cell phones more often than men

B. talking on the phone while driving is dangerous

C. cell phones do not necessarily bring people together

D. cell phones make one - on - one personal contact easy

5Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Cell phones are the New Cigarettes

B. Cell phones are harmful to the Society

C. The New Report about the Cell phone

D. The Disadvantages of the Cell phone

【题目】首先,请阅读下列的应用文:

A. Chapter One. …you probably have an image in your mind of what the “perfect’ or “ideal” body looks like. Try not to press yourself to look that way. Each person is born with genes that control the shape of his/her body. Everyone is different. It’s important to be comfortable with the body you have.

B. Chapter Two. …You use energy for everything you do. That energy comes from the food you eat. Too much food or too little exercise causes your body to store the extra energy in fat cells. But, if you exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet, you’ll feel healthier and stronger not to mention look great.

C. Chapter Three. Your body runs best on foods high in carbohydrates(碳水化合物) and low in fat and sugar. Eating a healthy diet will provide your body with everything it needs to run smoothly. Your body breaks down proteins into amino acids(氨基酸), so you don’t need to take in the amino acids separately.

D. Chapter Four. …Exercise does more than just burn calories. For instance, regular exercise makes your muscles strong and flexible, and increases the amount of muscle you have. It also makes your heart stronger and lowers your blood pressure;

E. Chapter Five. …Always warm up and stretch for 5-10 minutes before you do strength or endurance exercises. Afterwards, take 10 minutes to cool down. Your heart should beat normally when you stop. Exercising with a group may help you to exercise regularly.

F. Chapter Six. …Supplementation of a mixture of essential amino acids will increase protein synthesis (蛋白质综合体). While supplementing with either carbohydrate or amino acids(氨基酸) may limit muscle damage and stimulate (激励) protein synthesis, there is increasing evidence that the combination can have an addictive effect.

以下是与上述章节相关的读者,请匹配读者和他/她需要了解的相关信息的所在章节。

1 Charity He always breathes heavily and his heart beats irregularly when he finishes his exercise. He wonders whether there is something wrong with his body or whether he is not suited for physical exercises.

2Wander She likes eating meat a lot every day as she thinks that meat can provide people with energy. Besides, she does sports on weekends. However, she is not energetic enough to face the pressure.

3Helly She has tried many ways of keeping fit, but she still gets fat because of stress from work. She doesn’t look well.

4Tammy He is a Grade One college student majoring in gymnastics. He must write a passage about what a healthy body is.

5Pandy He is a coach, working in a gym. He will start a new course next month on how to lose weight. For the first few lessons, he is going to talk about why people have to exercise.

【题目】Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school , I was driving to my parents' home in Missouri for ChristmasI stopped at a gas station about 50 miles from Oklahoma City. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas

I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my carI stopped and wondered what I should doA car pulled up behind meIt was the couple. They said they would take meWe chatted and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business cardI wrote them a thank-you noteSoon afterward, I received a Christmas present from themTheir note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful

Years later, I drove to a meeting in the morningIn late afternoon I found that I'd left the lights on all day, and the battery was deadThen I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership was right next doorI walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom

"Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and explained my troubleThey quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started itThey would accept no payment, so later, I wrote them a note to say thanksI received a letter back from one of the salesmenNo one had ever written him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said

"Thank you" - two powerful wordsThey're easy to say and mean so much

[写作内容]

(1) 以约30个词概括短文的要点;

(2) 然后以120个词就向别人道谢的重要性这个主题发表你的看法, 并包括如下要点:

a) 叙述你向别人道谢的一次真实或虚构的经历;

b) 你是如何认识到向别人道谢的重要性的;

c) 向别人道谢对你和对方都带了什么影响。

[写作要求] 可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点, 也可以参照阅读材料的内容, 但不得直接引用原文中的句子

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